There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

The heavenly sound of music kindles my heart, twinkles my mind, and feeds my soul so that I may transcend and transform.

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.

While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

In 1965, I marched for equality.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.